Cost Optimisation Contracts in Shropshire

Cost Optimization
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cost Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Optimisation 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 3.08% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £537 - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 - -
75th Percentile £539 - -
90th Percentile £540 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £537 £350 £475
% change year-on-year +53.43% -26.32% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

Cost Optimisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 125 83 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 96.15% 61.94% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 51 125
10th Percentile £311 £260 £410
25th Percentile £403 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £378 £538
Median % change year-on-year +28.04% -29.74% +6.53%
75th Percentile £537 £497 £540
90th Percentile £544 £519 £595
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate £12.18 £10.42 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -81.05% +214.29%
75th Percentile - £11.32 £57.50
90th Percentile - £14.26 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Job postings citing Cost Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in Shropshire

Cost Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Optimisation within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Telford - 3 £539 - 3
Cost Optimisation
West Midlands

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Cost Reduction
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Process Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Opsview
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) PagerDuty